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40:01 hello and welcome welcome everyone
40:11 my name is anne paul king i am the executive director of the ventura college foundation i want to thank you
40:17 all for being with us today to come together and recognize this year's
40:22 ventura college foundation scholarship recipients [Applause]
40:32 before we begin there are a couple of housekeeping items i'd like to take care of in case of emergencies make note of the
40:40 exits nearest you in the corners down here and upstairs to
40:45 your right and to your left so look and see where they are and make sure that you know that you're
40:52 going to leave out of the one that's closest thank you restrooms are located upstairs in the
40:58 entryway if you are it cannot get there because you have
41:03 ambulatory challenges you are going i'm going to point out some volunteers and they're going to help you there are two
41:09 volunteers here in the corner they're going to wave their hands right now yep they're going to help you too we're
41:14 going to talk about volunteers in a minute and if and anytime you need assistance you're going to get our volunteers are
41:21 here for you so foundation volunteers upstairs downstairs everywhere raise
41:26 raise your hands wildly so we know who you are okay they're two right here
41:32 and there will be one standing in the corner up here for all of you lovely family members and donors upstairs hang
41:39 on they're coming they're wearing a dark green ribbon on their name tag
41:45 so thank you all so very much as we kick off our program i'd like to acknowledge and welcome first and foremost our most
41:52 amazing students you have endorsed so much in the last couple of years and still you continue to come to school and
41:59 pursue your educational dreams and your goals and your dedication is inspiring
42:04 to us so well done
42:12 to you our scholarship donors please stand right now we want to see
42:19 you so if you're up in the bleachers and you're a scholarship donor please stand if you are behind me and you are a
42:25 scholarship donor please stand let us recognize them for their investment and
42:31 our students [Music] thank you all
42:36 [Music] a special thanks to our event sponsors we would not be able to host this
42:42 special event today if it weren't for you and some of these partners have been with us a very long time and others are
42:48 new supporters we value each and every one and their generosity so much
42:53 first we have two captain sponsors and our first captain sponsor is southern
42:59 california edison we have a met
43:06 we have a message for our students from the supporters of edison international please see the screen
43:12 [Applause]
43:25 hi i'm justin lee corporate philanthropy advisor here at southern california edison and on behalf of edison
43:31 international congratulations to the 2022 ventura college foundation scholarship recipients edison
43:38 international has supported the academic journeys of countless students specifically in the stem field which is
43:44 so important as you are the future innovators scientists and engineers that will change the world we are so proud of
43:50 our long-standing partnership with the ventura college foundation and all the great work that has been done in
43:56 ensuring the success of students from diverse backgrounds both during and after school again congratulations and
44:03 all the best [Music]
44:10 i'd like to invite andrew thomas government relations manager for southern california edison to come up
44:17 and say a few words andrew [Music] [Applause]
44:25 good afternoon everyone uh on behalf of pedro pizzaro our ceo at southern
44:31 california edison all of our employees we just want to congratulate all the recipients of the
44:36 awards tonight and all all those who are receiving edison awards we applaud the effort that you made and the efforts
44:43 that you will make to make our communities better and as those recipients receive the awards i also
44:48 want to thank all of you in the stands who made sandwiches lunch dropped them off here uh got them motivated to do the
44:55 thing that has to be done to make our communities better so to all of you congratulations to the
45:01 ventura college foundation continue to do the great work you're doing to make our communities better thank you have a
45:06 great evening [Applause]
45:12 and i have to take a post personal moment any junior college that can play parliament during the reception music is
45:19 okay with me so thank you so much [Applause]
45:26 thank you andrew our next captain sponsor is ah is h z main event who is
45:33 providing audio and visual components today hugo zamora owner of hz cannot be here
45:39 with us today but we appreciate everything that he has done for us for many years and his staff so hector and
45:45 fabian give a big wave there i see actors there fabian is running around he's behind us thank you thank you all
45:52 so much pirate sponsor our pirate sponsor for tonight is miracle mile advisors are
46:00 followed by our navigator sponsor citizen business bank cyril creative group buckingham sponsors our bank of
46:07 sierra ohana pet hospital and l and t catering who provided today's
46:14 refreshments and our final gold chest sponsor is trinity wheeler photography who will be
46:21 taking photos of this event trinity and and her husband mark are here behind you
46:26 and they're going to be taking photographs so thank you for your round of applause
46:32 for all of our sponsors so i would like to acknowledge the
46:38 ventura college leadership here today and so as i call your name please stand
46:44 president of ventura college dr kimberly hoffman's [Applause]
46:51 vice president of academic affairs and student learning jennifer khalspec goetz
46:56 [Applause] vice president of student affairs dr
47:02 damian pena vice president of business
47:08 administrative services kathy bajorkes [Applause]
47:15 at this time if you are a college administrator a faculty member a staff
47:20 member please stand and if you already stand wave and we can look behind you too wrecking we
47:26 want to recognize you for your invaluable support blaine is behind me i can see him
47:31 there we are up there in the crowd
47:39 i'd like to recognize our elected officials in attendance today as well so please stand when i when you hear your
47:44 name board uh ventura county community college district board of trustee member
47:50 stan mantu [Applause]
47:57 and i want to make sure just in case we've lost you student trustee brian rodriguez from ventura
48:04 college student ventura college are you in the house i know that he meant to be here today
48:10 so we hope everything's all right and then former board of trustee member stephen blum
48:21 there are more amazing people with us tonight please stand if you are a member of the following groups we're going to hold a round of applause until all of
48:28 the members of these groups have stand or have stood and the ventura college
48:33 scholarship reading committee you did a good job you read all every application three times please stand
48:41 for those who wrote all right all right you do it
48:47 are any of you up in the bleachers okay thank you those who wrote letters of
48:54 recommendations for scholarship recipients please if you're already standing wave
48:59 your hands wildly if you haven't stood up please stand because you did a lot of
49:04 work to make sure that these students are in the house blaine is wildly raising his hand thank you i think there
49:10 might be some up here we appreciate those recommenders so much and so i ask you students to do that privately if you
49:16 have not done so already are today's volunteers thank you so much our two volunteer american sign language
49:23 interpreters thank you so much my incredible foundation staff
49:28 our athletic department maintenance operations people on our i.t people please give a round of applause for
49:34 everyone in this group [Applause]
49:42 our ventura college foundation board chair ellen dembowski could not be with us tonight but in her place i'd like to
49:47 introduce board secretary and ventura college faculty member member abra
49:52 flores [Applause]
50:01 hey thank you and i'd like to thank the scholarship donors
50:06 for their contribution to the foundation's mission and these students futures
50:12 many of these students are able to attend ventura college and thrive because of your support
50:18 i'd like to acknowledge the foundation board and the board maritime members present today and ask them to stand so
50:24 they may be recognized robert bailey
50:33 let's wait till the end it's a long list kathy baharkis
50:39 [Applause]
50:49 kimberly hoffman and paul king
50:56 tony magana ed summers
51:02 eleanor tillquist rob van neuberg
51:09 we had to bet whether or not i could say his name right i think he won harold wolf
51:16 board emeritus john wooley and uh former board member sharon
51:24 watsouli please join me and thank them for their service leadership and generosity
51:38 and now i'm going to turn the mic back over to anne
51:44 [Applause]
51:55 today's scholarship awards are presented in memory of nine long-standing members of the ventura college foundation family
52:02 each of these individuals either created an endowment that will be with us in perpetuity
52:08 or left a legacy in their estate plans today we honor their legacies that continue to make a difference in the
52:14 lives of the students that they cared so passionately about our first individual
52:21 i'd like to recognize is larry barrett who was the architect of ventura college's dominant men's and women's
52:26 swimming programs of the early 21st century and a 2017 inductee into the vc athletic hall
52:34 of fame larry barrett's family established and endowed the endowed larry barrett
52:40 memorial student aquatics athletic scholarship to be awarded annually and with us today in the bleachers are
52:47 larry's wife beth and son colin beth and colin you please stand and be recognized for larry's legacy
52:55 [Applause]
53:04 the late mr don r bellis was introduced to the foundation by his neighbor ventura
53:10 college foundation emerity board member richard taylor and his wife kristen
53:15 mr bellis often gave anonymously and supported all of the foundation's signature initiatives the promise
53:21 textbook lending library created a phoenix scholarship in support of vc nursing students and ultimately provided
53:27 for the work of the ventura college foundation with a legacy gift in his estate plans
53:34 it is our honor to carry don's legacy with us today
53:39 [Applause]
53:44 doris colin was a dynamic and lively woman who lit up the room with her extraordinary smile and generous spirit
53:52 she and her husband ken who serves on the ventura college foundation board today
53:57 we're big supporters of our students and they've donated over 95 000 to the foundation and created the collin family
54:04 annual scholarship doris's legacy will live on in the many students whose lives will be touched by
54:09 the foundation i'd like to ask my friend ken ken collin doris's husband and ventura
54:16 college foundation board member to stand and be recognized [Applause]
54:28 donald gerald gloyston senior beloved father husband brother grandfather great
54:34 grandfather and friend don won many awards for financial achievement including the prestigious stockholder
54:40 hall of fame in 1996 he ran for ventura city council and was
54:46 heavily involved in community projects politics and philanthropy don and his wife mary enjoyed traveling
54:52 throughout the world and upon mary's death don established the mary j gloyston nursing memorial scholarship
54:59 endowment to support bc nursing students in perpetuity so we honor his legacy today
55:06 [Applause]
55:12 robert ingram was a kind and giving and gracious man who gave generously with
55:18 both time and resources from various mission projects including adult literacy
55:24 bob left an endowment with the ventura college for the nancy stewart memorial scholarship
55:29 bob's daughter and son-in-law are here with us today judy and alan are in the bleachers you please stand so we can
55:35 recognize this legacy [Applause]
55:47 elaine james elaine's most prolific work and passion was in ministry and spanned more than 40 plus years she traveled all
55:54 over the united states ministering and preaching the gospel elaine is survived by her husband ralph
56:01 elaine and ralph have a history of generosity with the ventura college foundation they established scholarships
56:06 in honor of their mothers marie mcneill memorial scholarship and the mod a bronton memorial scholarship endowment
56:14 ralph served on the ventura college foundation board of directors and has retired from his career at ventura
56:19 college as a beloved educational counselor and today we have this rock star ralph james in our presence
56:26 elaine's husband's drought james you please stand so we can see you and recognize you
56:32 [Applause]
56:40 aurora aurora loss was an independent and career career-driven woman who grew up on a farm in montana and made her way
56:47 to work as a cartographer in the pentagon in world war ii
56:53 while there she credits a nurse for saving her life aurora had a 20-year history of giving
56:59 to ventura the ventura college foundation to fund scholarships for ventura college nursing students
57:05 in her estate she gave a large endowment for these scholarships and a large gifted
57:10 equipment for the nursing program upon her death her niece is ill today could not be with
57:16 us julie to saint jane but we honor aurora's legacy today
57:22 [Applause] walt w walker larry or triple dub as he
57:30 was known to many was a world war ii veteran and retired fire department chief who called ventura home after
57:36 numerous years traveling the globe with his wife jacqueline larry would establish the jaclyn d walker memorial
57:42 scholarship endowment in memory of his late wife a local artist to support bc students with the same passion of
57:49 creating the visual arts so we thank you larry
57:58 stan weissel was a scholar humanitarian philanthropist and a self-made man his
58:05 motto was to pay it forward and he did so by helping those in need and in 2011 he created the stand by self phoenix
58:12 endowment fund which will continue to support six student advocates for gender equity
58:19 annually who have returned to school after their lives were interrupted by life the stan wycell tutoring center at
58:25 ventura college is dedicated to him deanna trent stan's friend and hospice
58:31 chaplain is here with us today deanna in the bleachers please stand and be recognized for stan's legacy
58:38 [Applause] [Music]
58:46 our final tribute is the uh honorable colleen toy white
58:53 uh and it will be for her and she will always be remembered for her compassion and fairness on the bench
59:00 and her sense of civic duty she has served on the board of dir of the ventura college foundation for 10 years
59:07 and was a board emerity member and was a founding donor of our phoenix scholarship program her husband art
59:14 bliss created the honorable colleen toy white memorial scholarship endowment in her memory
59:20 and with us today is colleen's husband art bliss in the bleachers art will you please stand so that we can
59:27 recognize judge toy white's legacy
59:37 you can read more about each of these legacy donors in today's event program please join me once more and thanking
59:43 all of these legacy donors and those who have left behind to carry them
59:49 and their contributions and let's expand our support
59:54 through them [Applause]
1:00:02 so now i want to share with those of you who are new to us how the ventura college foundation supports these
1:00:07 students established 39 years ago they've been 39 we're going to be 40 next year
1:00:12 yeah established 39 years ago the ventura college foundation has raised more than 46.7
1:00:19 million dollars to further our mission to remove financial barriers to education by providing philanthropic
1:00:25 support to students and their programs at ventura college of the over 10 000 students that attend
1:00:31 ventura college 55 are families who are low or very low income 50 are food insecure 40 are first
1:00:39 in their families to go to college and 18 are home insecure though there are many barriers our
1:00:46 students continue to come to school to ventura college because they know the path they are on is going to make a
1:00:51 difference not just for them but their families as well the ventura college foundation achieves our mission
1:00:58 through three primary programs textbook lending library which enables students to check out and use books for the
1:01:04 entire semester at no cost to the student the development of fostering a public private partnerships to create education
1:01:11 programs with industry leaders who share a commitment to ensuring that all students have access to high quality and
1:01:17 affordable post-secondary education and of course the scholarship program
1:01:23 today we will award 446 scholarships to
1:01:28 240 students totaling 756 thousand nine hundred and eight
1:01:35 dollars
1:01:43 the support will be going to continuing students and transferring students for those that are coming back to vc next
1:01:49 year the average scholarship package is twenty four hundred dollars and for those continuing their journey to our
1:01:56 four-year institution the average package of scholarships is forty two hundred dollars
1:02:01 at a minimum each student here is receiving a thousand dollars to help them on their educational journey
1:02:09 this is where dreams begin and goals are achieved so just imagine if we could provide the
1:02:15 power of education to twice as many students that are here today how amazing
1:02:20 would that be today i challenge each student to come back here in the next decade
1:02:27 to be the next generation of scholarship donors and support future students who
1:02:32 will be in these seats after you today i ask each donor here to share
1:02:38 your story about the experience of supporting and meeting the scholars here today with someone who is not yet a
1:02:44 donor tell them about the transformative power that comes from helping secure the future of these students
1:02:51 every one of us can contribute in some way to the success of ventura college students this is your community college
1:02:58 you're helping pave the way for a better future and a richer community and i thank you all
1:03:04 [Applause]
1:03:10 this evening we are excited to host our first in-person scholarship event in three years also we are so happy
1:03:18 so happy the first time for the first time to have enough space so that our students are able to bring family
1:03:23 members with them and loved ones to help them celebrate their achievements so let us begin our celebration of these
1:03:31 incredible scholars i am proud to introduce to you the ventura college foundation director of
1:03:37 major and planned giving mr jerry pantoja will be who will be assisting me in announcing the scholarships and
1:03:43 student recipients today as well as dr kimberly hoffman's
1:03:48 ventura college president and arbor flores the foundation board secretary to help
1:03:54 us hand out certificates you will be taking photographs with them
1:04:00 x marks the spot i'm going to ask them to stand on the x there it is
1:04:05 thank you please stand on the edge students here's the instructions this is how today's going to go you will be
1:04:12 called up one bro at a time please keep an eye on the volunteers
1:04:17 standing next to your section wave wave volunteers you know excellent volunteers
1:04:22 are waiting so you will exit your road towards the volunteer to the perimeter of the room
1:04:29 walk forward to the basketball hoop line up there until it is time to your b you will be recognized and jerry and i
1:04:37 will beckon you and ask you to give us your card
1:04:45 so please find your card right now you can take them out from behind your name tag if any of you have clipped them to
1:04:50 you you're going to walk behind jerry or myself
1:04:57 and you will be standing we're going to hand we're going to take your card and then you're
1:05:03 going to stand with dr hoffman's or arbor floor is they will give your
1:05:08 certificate you're gonna wait for a second so the trinity wheeler can take your photograph
1:05:15 in them and then you're gonna walk through the middle of the aisle and back to your seat
1:05:20 so here's something i need from you i need you to make sure that your name tag is high on your body and visible and
1:05:27 here's why because we're going to make sure that you get a photograph of you so and we're going to post that on
1:05:34 facebook as well so that you and your family can have those photographs forever
1:05:40 so thank you for doing that for us because we want to make sure that we know who you are when we see that photograph
1:05:46 and some of those folks are going to be looking for that photograph aren't here today so they'll know you by your name
1:05:51 tag okay so thank you scholarship donors you are handed a card
1:05:57 during check-in in your name tag that lists the name or names of students receiving
1:06:03 your scholarship please reference this so that you can cheer on your scholarship recipient as
1:06:10 they walk onto the stage and in the end we'll give you some more instructions about that card so don't
1:06:16 let that card loose just yet so now without further delay let us meet
1:06:22 these deserving students whose lives we are investing in today will the first row please stand
1:06:32 follow the instructions of your volunteers and while you are getting into place we're going to kick off the
1:06:38 awarding by calling up the ventura county community college district board
1:06:44 of trustees board of trustee our student representative brian rodriguez to
1:06:50 receive our very first scholarship where is brian
1:06:56 there you are brian is going to
1:07:03 put his card away because i have it in the script and he's going to stand next to president hoffman's brian is
1:07:08 receiving the league of women voters a ventura county scholarship how appropriate
1:07:14 funded by the league of women voters of ventura county and the ventura college foundation achievement scholarship
1:07:19 funded by the ventura college foundation board of directors congratulations brian [Applause]
1:07:32 [Laughter] okay our next recipient who is with us
1:07:38 behind the stage is tony magana not only is there he is our asbc president
1:07:45 he's also the member of the board of uh directors for the ventura college foundation
1:07:51 and he is our student representative on that board so he's receiving the advocate for social justice scholarship
1:07:56 he created created by jennifer khalsbach goetz and jack goetz and the james via ida w i left memorial
1:08:03 scholarship be created by the ventura college foundation board of directors and the southern california edison
1:08:09 scholarship created by the southern by southern california edison so let's award our uh two student
1:08:17 speakers as well before we get our first row going arturo balda arturo balderama you will
1:08:25 be receiving come on forward he's one of our speakers today arturo
1:08:30 thank you arturo is receiving the cabola family scholarship he created by frank cavola
1:08:37 and the linda mcsherry roos environmental studies scholarship created by linda roos
1:08:42 congratulations meredith mccallment
1:08:48 our second student speaker today is receiving the bob gowder family scholarship and the ventura college
1:08:53 foundation achievement scholarship both created by the ventura college foundation board of directors
1:08:58 congratulations meredith okay
1:09:13 vanessa fernandes will be receiving the larry meister memorial business scholarship created by barbara meister
1:09:19 and the ventura college foundation achievement scholarship created by the ventura college foundation board of
1:09:25 directors [Applause] next up we have oh that's a little loud
1:09:32 joshua mchale who will be receiving the gene haws foundation scholarship created by the gene haas foundation as well as
1:09:38 the linda mcsherry ruth environmental studies scholarship created by linda runes all right
1:09:44 kelly lipscomb will be receiving come on come on over we'll be receiving the martin p nilton
1:09:50 memorial scholarship created by the center for future studies and the osher foundation scholarship created by the
1:09:57 foundation for california community colleges and the ventura college foundation achievement scholarship
1:10:02 created by the ventura college foundation board of directors [Applause]
1:10:11 next up we have taylor sneed receiving the wendy mcgee memorial nursing scholarship created by jim mcgee
1:10:19 [Applause]
1:10:25 will be receiving the cast pardon me we'll be receiving the james v
1:10:30 and ida w island memorial scholarship created by the ventura college foundation board of directors angel
1:10:36 congratulations [Applause]
1:10:43 all right next up we have salvador balaton who will be receiving the american association of university of women
1:10:49 ventura county branch bevin's client scholarship congratulations
1:10:55 esmeralda velazquez will be receiving the james villa and ida w iliff memorial
1:11:01 scholarship created by the ventura college foundation board of directors as well as the jessica prescott art
1:11:07 scholarship created by luther tollo
1:11:14 our next recipient is arana saunders who will be receiving the frank nolan memorial scholarship created by the
1:11:20 ventura college foundation board of directors as well as a mod a bought in memorial scholarship created by ralph
1:11:25 james diego sales will be receiving the dr
1:11:32 joyce mason evans ventura county community college retired annual scholarship created by joyce evans and
1:11:39 the hemming family scholarship created by ruth heming
1:11:47 our next recipient is clarissa swallows and she's received the fighter ellie family trust scholarship created by
1:11:54 sheila faradelli and a martin e ewins and zazi scholarship created by mike ewings
1:12:00 all right xavier terminello
1:12:05 will be receiving the james b an idw memorial scholarship created by the ventura college foundation board of
1:12:11 directors [Applause]
1:12:19 our next student is maximilia mendoza who will be receiving the linda rose memorial scholarship created by sophia
1:12:25 manson and the michelin albert sacraf nursing scholarship created by hal wasserman
1:12:35 romeo tirado will be receiving the david p bianco family scholarship created by
1:12:40 david bianco and the frank nolan memorial scholarship created by the ventura college foundation board of
1:12:46 directors [Applause]
1:12:53 our next recipient is gabrielle navarro who will be receiving the frank nolan memorial scholarship created by the
1:12:58 board of directors of the foundation the loop lupe robert piro's nursing scholarship created by lou perpiros and
1:13:04 the nancy stewart memorial nursing scholarship created by evan slater
1:13:12 alexander sale will be receiving the ojai family podiatry clinic dr james
1:13:18 todd beatty dpm scholarship created by linda k fisher and the quinn company
1:13:24 diesel student scholarship created by quinn company
1:13:32 our next recipient is nelson magana alvarez who will be receiving the guadalupes nursing scholarship created
1:13:38 by daniel martinez as well as the michelin and albert sacraf nursing scholarship by hal wasserman and the
1:13:44 vcsbc peer assistance scholarship created by the school of nursing and allied health
1:13:50 [Applause] this bet elizabeth arias will be
1:13:57 receiving the carolyn villenes memorial scholarship created by diana gleason and the prison hospital action committee pre
1:14:04 scholarship created by the prison hospital action committee and the ventura college foundation pirate pride
1:14:10 scholarship created by the ventura college foundation board of directors [Applause]
1:14:18 our next recipient is risa rivera she she has received the linda rose memorial
1:14:23 scholarship created by sophia manson the osher foundation scholarship created by the foundation for community california
1:14:29 community colleges and the tony and ruth garcia scholarship created by roland garcia
1:14:37 megan ingamels will be receiving the gene haas scholarship created by the gene house foundation
1:14:48 our next recipient is angela escalante who is receiving the janet and mark l
1:14:53 golden nursing scholarship created by mark and janet goldston as well as a rebecca singer bielen memorial
1:15:00 scholarship created by bob beeling [Applause]
1:15:06 juliana martinez will be receiving the frank nolan memorial scholarship created by the ventura college foundation board
1:15:12 of directors the john and glenda hammer science scholarship created by john hammer and the ventura college
1:15:18 foundation pirate pride scholarship created by the ventura college foundation board of directors
1:15:27 [Applause] our next recipient is bernie brittany barraza she will be receiving the
1:15:33 fighter ellie family trust scholarship created by sheila ferrarelli as well as a gordon ross medical scholarship
1:15:38 created by gordon ross medical foundation
1:15:44 megan hill will be receiving the clean power alliance voyager scholarship
1:15:49 created by clean power alliance the james v and iw isle of memorial
1:15:54 scholarship created by the ventura college foundation board of directors and the southern california edison
1:16:00 scholarship created by southern california edison [Applause]
1:16:08 next we have olivia miller who is receiving the don and sandy greenberg scholarship created by donald greenberg
1:16:14 as well as the ventura college foundation achievement scholarship created by the ventura college foundation board of directors
1:16:22 [Applause] eskiel mina will be receiving the
1:16:28 california environmental education scholarship created by california environmental education
1:16:35 [Applause] our next recipient is alyssa rodriguez
1:16:41 she is receiving the heming family scholarship created by bruce heming as well as the ventura college foundation
1:16:47 achievement scholarship created by the college foundation board of directors
1:16:55 benjamin landoros will be receiving the western states petroleum association scholarship created by western state
1:17:01 petroleum association and the west side scholarship created by the west side community council
1:17:08 [Applause] all right our next student is horace
1:17:13 muyong he will be receiving the employers advisory council of the alina villalobos annual scholarship created by
1:17:20 the western ventura county employer advisory council as well as the ventura college foundation achievement
1:17:26 scholarship created by the board of directors of the foundation [Applause]
1:17:33 michelle tapia will be receiving the employer advisory council scholarship created by western ventura county
1:17:39 employer advisory council and the ventura college foundation achievement scholarship created by the ventura
1:17:45 college foundation board of directors [Applause]
1:17:53 our next recipient is mallory truman who will be receiving the best pink scholarship created by betty harris as
1:17:59 well as a ventura college college holistic health graduate scholarship created by rhianne corner
1:18:05 [Applause] jennifer orozco will be receiving the friends of osher pirate pride
1:18:11 scholarship created by the ventura college foundation board of directors the tallest stanton scholarship created
1:18:17 by the ventura college foundation board of directors
1:18:24 our next recipient andrea i apologize
1:18:30 i'm sorry she will be receiving the noah charles creasy memorial scholarship created by laura creasy as well as the ventura
1:18:36 college foundation private pride scholarship created by the college foundation board of directors
1:18:45 jacqueline naranjo will be receiving the lillian denver scholarship created by russell denver and the ventura college
1:18:52 foundation pirate pride scholarship created by the ventura college foundation board of directors
1:19:00 our next recipient well jumping the gun there a little bit our next recipients the lady judge
1:19:06 moreno who will be receiving the ventura college foundation achievement scholarship created by the venturi
1:19:11 ventura called foundation board of directors [Applause]
1:19:20 mikhail mitchell will be receiving the james v and ida w isla memorial scholarship created by the ventura
1:19:26 college foundation board of directors and the tally santon scholarship created by the ventura college board of
1:19:32 directors foundation board of directors [Applause]
1:19:43 our next recipient is amanda ciccone who will be receiving the ventura college foundation achievement scholarship
1:19:49 created by the ventura college foundation board of directors
1:19:56 kenya autoheart will be receiving the caroline the carol olson bryan memorial scholarship created by jerry olson and
1:20:04 the sciu local 99 a classified senate scholarship created by the los angeles
1:20:10 city and county school employees union [Applause]
1:20:19 our next recipient is piper nixon who will be awarded the alfred howie davis memorial scholarship created by the
1:20:26 ventura college foundation board of directors
1:20:32 karen versting will be receiving the jessica prescott nursing scholarship created by luther tolo
1:20:41 [Applause]
1:20:46 our next recipient andrea salazar will be receiving the friends of osher arts scholarship created by the college
1:20:52 foundation board of directors the kenneth d helms memorial oregon scholarship created by elizabeth helms
1:20:57 as well as in michelin and albert sakroff music scholarship created by michelin zakarov
1:21:04 [Applause] julissa montez will be receiving the
1:21:09 ventura college foundation achievement scholarship created by the ventura college foundation board of directors
1:21:16 [Applause]
1:21:22 our next recipient is caitlin geisel who will be receiving the stanley prescott business scholarship created by loser
1:21:28 tolo as well as a ventura college foundation achievement scholarship created by the ventura college foundation board of directors
1:21:40 we are going to take a short break from awarding to honor the foundation's two new board
1:21:47 emerity i would like to call up rob van neuberg the immediate past board president for
1:21:54 the ventura college foundation to make the presentation and dr hoffman's and arbor to award the certificates
1:22:07 it says good evening i'm going to say hi everyone and congratulations
1:22:13 on on june the 30th they want me to read this in two minutes to hang with me and june 30th 2021 the tour calls
1:22:21 board foundation boardwalk conferred borderline status to dr ruth heming and donna santo esquire
1:22:28 for the years of exemplary leadership and service to thousands of students and alumni of the ventura college community
1:22:34 colleges first you recognize new borthmeta dona santo
1:22:40 missanto gave 19 years of service to the ventura calls foundation board and held many titles including board chair
1:22:46 during her tenure on the board donna also served on a variety of committees to support the work of the foundation
1:22:52 she was generous with both her time and resources additionally this family law attorney
1:22:58 was a founding daughter of our phoenix scholarship programmed by a group of female attorneys set out to support returning
1:23:06 students who had taken a break from their education due to hardship or the need to support our family
1:23:12 the success of the support is evidenced in the last year over 88 of returning
1:23:17 student scholarship applicants work awarded scholarships to help remove financial barriers to their success
1:23:23 additionally during our leadership the foundation built an ocean scholarship endowment fund to support students in
1:23:29 need and take advantage of a matching funds opportunity from the bernard oshaw foundation
1:23:35 today this fund is worth 2.4 million dollars and supports 50 to 70 ventura college students annually
1:23:42 we honor donna santos esquire board amerita and passionate and devoted leader and
1:23:48 philanthropist we spoke to donna and though she could not attend the ceremony tonight she stands a deep appreciation for his honor
1:23:56 and now let's recognize dr ruth heming my dear friend dr heming the ventura college foundation
1:24:02 board for 17 years and gave decades of exemplary service to the ventura county community college district
1:24:08 as a president has accused me of english and journalism instructor dean vice president at moore park college oxnard
1:24:16 and ventura colleges and interim president at oxnard college so she
1:24:21 knows her stuff in her retirement she joined the ventura college foundation board led the
1:24:26 scholarship and grants committee and was a board officer for well over a decade notably the successes of the foundation
1:24:33 of her leadership and tenure included awarding scholarships for over 4 000 vc students
1:24:39 launching the ventura college textbook lending program and creating the frontal recalls promise program
1:24:45 our promise program was the first of its kind in the state and showed that promised students were 70 more likely to
1:24:51 graduate as students of the same age were not in the program this success propelled the state of
1:24:56 california to create and fund the california promise program which now serves tens of thousands of community
1:25:02 colleges students across the state their committee's other notable programs
1:25:08 include the faculty education enhancement grants thomas fire emergency grants
1:25:14 and basic needs support her passion for the student come here her passion for the students is deep
1:25:21 constant and undeniable her ethic is that ventura college students deserve our efforts and
1:25:27 responsible consideration dr heming leans in what others may not she's a rock in the storm and a role
1:25:33 model for many education leaders across the country leader philanthropist advocate and
1:25:39 friend today we honor dr ruth hamming orthomory term
1:25:44 [Applause]
1:26:11 i'm gonna invite ruth to say a few words before she introduces our first student speaker
1:26:17 ruth
1:26:26 whoever said that friday the 13th was an unlucky day
1:26:32 this is a lucky day for pretty much everybody in the room and i'm very happy to be able to share
1:26:39 it with you recipients family friends
1:26:45 faculty staff foundation board it's it's about all of us
1:26:51 and it as you know it takes a village it's a very good looking
1:26:56 highly intelligent group of students i'm looking at i'm proud of you and i know you're proud of yourself and i know the
1:27:03 families are proud of you as well um i had the good fortune to serve on
1:27:09 the foundation board for they tell me it's been it was 17 years i lost count
1:27:15 but uh at 17 of the 39 years of the foundation's existence during which time
1:27:22 as you've heard we've given away millions of dollars of money to
1:27:27 thousands of students like you and we're very very very happy to do it
1:27:32 as i'm sure you are to receive it but today is uh about students not about
1:27:39 uh old retired faculty members and i'd like to introduce you to the first student speaker arturo balderama
1:27:49 [Applause]
1:28:00 good evening everyone first i want to say well congrats to all
1:28:05 of us all of you you've all worked really hard to get here i know that there's a lot of people who are
1:28:10 graduating and transferring out this year but um i want to take everyone good job a really good job to
1:28:17 get here so i'm introduce myself real quick my name is arturo balderama i am a continuing
1:28:23 second year student here at ventura college i am a engineering major
1:28:29 and i was raised locally by my mom my uncle my grandparents here in ventura county
1:28:34 and even though i started here in fall of 2020 much a lot of people i see some friends
1:28:41 i went to high school with at romesa ventura college has been nothing but
1:28:46 amazing with the amount of support that they have for the students here i mean
1:28:51 this alone is awesome enough already but on top of that from the
1:28:57 the tutoring center the lending library if the services here are just amazing
1:29:04 but um given that we started here i started here in the fall of 2020 things were
1:29:09 definitely weird it was the first fully online semester and even that spring after was odd too
1:29:15 but you just kept head down keep working hard and i was able to
1:29:22 make a lot of useful connections in the mesa program which is the mathematics
1:29:27 engineering and science program and as well as society hispanic professional engineers ship
1:29:34 um through these programs i was able to learn about internship program which was with the navy which is the naval
1:29:39 research enterprise internship program which i was able to take part of during
1:29:44 the first summer after my freshman year here and through that program which i will be
1:29:50 returning to this year i was able to get a lot of experience with a lot of other engineers here
1:29:56 locally at the base in uh port wineme and without ventura college i wouldn't
1:30:01 have learned about that program which alone has already been able to open a lot of doors and help make a lot of
1:30:07 useful connections but um i know a lot of people are going to be moving on and some people are still going to be continuing here like i will
1:30:13 i still have one more year here but there are a lot of useful
1:30:21 services here at ventura college that the staff the professors everyone
1:30:27 everyone's cheering us on they want us to do good they want us to succeed that's why they do all of this for us
1:30:33 and i think that at the beginning when they introduced them they mentioned paying it forward i think that is a
1:30:39 very fair way to go about it overall but ventura college i just want to say thank
1:30:45 you for all you've done you've you do a lot everyone's done a great job it's
1:30:50 it's nice that we're all here together because it's been three years
1:30:55 even before i arrived here and many others did just um
1:31:01 it's been hard on a lot of people but we thrived and survived and
1:31:07 move on and make a difference in the future
1:31:13 [Applause]
1:31:24 thank you so much
1:31:30 we will now continue with the rewarding congratulations again to our tomorrow
1:31:35 and i'd like to invite russell richardson one of our scholarship readers and executive committee member
1:31:42 of the college area community council to join me in awarding the rest of the scholarships and i'm going to call up dr
1:31:48 hoffman's and our reporters again to help pass out certificates
1:31:53 thank you to this side third row for being patient as you stood
1:31:58 we're having the next third row come forward we're going to read off
1:32:03 two rows and then we're going to take a break so this row and the next row so now you
1:32:09 know and so the fifth row you get to sit for a little while longer
1:32:14 yeah so thank you all right so welcome russell thanks for joining me
1:32:21 all right so
1:32:34 foundation
1:32:41 our next recipient is christopher guerrero donovan should be receiving the barbara anne
1:32:47 mitchell memorial endowed scholarship created by rich and best pink staff
1:32:59 victoria tucker will be receiving the friends of osher nursing nursing scholarship created by the ventura
1:33:05 college foundation board of directors
1:33:13 senator garcia will be receiving the ed and sue styles scholarship created by edward style
1:33:18 the ventura college foundation achievement scholarship created by the ventura college foundation board of
1:33:24 directors
1:33:29 sebastian ayala will be receiving the collin family scholarship created by
1:33:34 kenneth collins
1:33:43 [Music] memorial scholarship created by ventura college foundation board of directors
1:33:50 and the mary a sandoval memorial scholarship created by the berentora college foundation board of directors
1:33:56 the dc dreamers scholarship created by alma rodriguez
1:34:05 nicole horror will be receiving the frank nolan memorial scholarship created by the ventura college foundation board
1:34:11 of directors
1:34:16 this is cynthia she will be receiving the seiu local 99 classified senate scholarship created by
1:34:24 the los angeles city and county school employees union [Applause]
1:34:30 claire bova will be receiving the damian de la pena memorial scholarship created
1:34:35 by karen de la pena and the ventura college foundation achievement scholarship created by the ventura
1:34:41 college foundation board of [Applause] our directors recipient
1:34:47 is nicholas receiving the ventura downtown lions club fred w smith scholarship created by
1:34:54 fred w smith and the scholarship foundation
1:35:00 crystal mendoza will be receiving the james doyle memorial scholarship created
1:35:06 by michael doyle and the ventura college foundation achievement scholarship created by the ventura college
1:35:12 foundation board of directors
1:35:18 ryan lewis will be receiving the chevron family scholarship created by virginia stout
1:35:24 and the ventura college foundation pirate pride scholarship created by the ventura college foundation board of
1:35:30 directors
1:35:35 amy ibarra will be receiving the blaylock family endow scholarship
1:35:40 created by charlene blaylock carlson and the hickerson family scholarship created
1:35:45 by ruth hamming
1:35:52 julie warringer will be receiving the james v and ida w isleth memorial scholarship created by the ventura
1:35:59 college foundation board of directors
1:36:06 lucinda miranda will be receiving the james b and ida w i left memorial
1:36:11 scholarship created by the ventura college foundation board of directors and a theodora art scholarship created
1:36:17 by gail
1:36:23 our next byrd is audra abby should be receiving the joe hernandez memorial arts scholarship created by teresa
1:36:30 hernandez an opinion family autism scholarship created by damian pena and
1:36:39 [Applause]
1:36:46 foundation scholarship created by the foundation for california community colleges
1:36:51 [Applause]
1:37:04 family scholarship created by david bianco and the ventura college foundation achievement scholarship
1:37:10 created by the ventura college foundation board of directors
1:37:17 laura gonzalez
1:37:27 memorial scholarship created by the ventura college foundation board of directors and the southern california
1:37:33 edison scholarship created by southern california edison
1:37:44 our next recipient is justine alvarez who will be receiving the osher foundation scholarship created by the
1:37:49 foundation for california community colleges
1:37:56 jordan pantoja will be receiving the southern california edison scholarship created by southern california edison
1:38:03 the southern california edison stem scholarship created by southern california edison and the viento
1:38:10 environmental scholarship created by carolyn gonzalez [Applause]
1:38:23 and she'll be receiving the clean power alliance voyager scholarship created by the clean power alliance and the ventura
1:38:29 college foundation pirate pride scholarship created by the ventura college foundation board
1:38:38 nikita scroll bro did i get it right
1:38:47 memorial scholarship created by sharon watts wooly and the helen yonker music
1:38:52 scholarship created by helen younger
1:38:59 our next recipient is austin dillon he'll be receiving the gordon ross medical scholarship created by gordon
1:39:06 ross medical foundation
1:39:13 ethan ramirez will be receiving the frank nolan memorial scholarship be created by the ventura college
1:39:19 foundation board of directors [Applause]
1:39:28 our next recipient melanie montiel who will be receiving the tony and ruth garcia scholarship created by ronald
1:39:35 garcia and the ventura college foundation achievement scholarship created by the
1:39:40 ventura college foundation board of directors
1:39:46 kiana hernandez will be receiving the barbara r broughton memorial scholarship
1:39:52 created by virginia stout the carol olsen-bryan memorial scholarship created by jerry olson and the ventura college
1:39:59 foundation achievement scholarship created by the ventura college foundation board of directors
1:40:04 [Applause]
1:40:10 will be receiving the league of women voters of the ventura county scholarship created by the league of women voters
1:40:16 professor ismail mayor de la roca memorial scholarship created by alberto
1:40:25 achievement scholarship created by the ventura college foundation board of directors [Applause]
1:40:33 irene prescott will be receiving the best the best pink staff scholarship created by betty harris
1:40:40 [Applause]
1:40:46 this is gabriel who will be receiving the gene haas scholarship credibility
1:40:52 foundation [Applause]
1:40:58 will be receiving the larry meister memorial business scholarship created by
1:41:04 [Applause]
1:41:11 our next recipient is antonio mazzola who will be receiving the gene haas foundation scholarship created by the
1:41:18 gene haas foundation [Applause]
1:41:24 gonzalez will be receiving a quinn company diesel student scholarship created by queen company
1:41:31 [Applause]
1:41:39 next is allison thompson who will be receiving the gene scholarship created by the gene haas foundation
1:41:46 [Applause]
1:41:54 vicky ramirez will be receiving the don l carlton family scholarship created by don carlton
1:42:01 [Applause]
1:42:07 our next recipient is angie irati will be receiving doctors rosalind warner and
1:42:13 michael hogan foster youth scholarship created by rosalind warner the james v
1:42:18 and idw isleth memorial scholarship created by the ventura college foundation board of directors and the
1:42:24 ruth heming foster youth scholarship created by ruth hamming
1:42:34 to leah walsh will be receiving the ventura college foundation achievement scholarship created by the ventura
1:42:39 college foundation board of directors
1:42:48 our next recipient is luis alexander navarro will be receiving the gary daniel nukem memorial scholarship
1:42:55 created by deborah newcombe and the john and glenda hammer engineering scholarship created by john hammer
1:43:05 thomas martin will be receiving the ventura college foundation diesel mechanics and automotive scholarship
1:43:12 created by the time-grown heritage heritage foundation
1:43:22 jeanette worthy will be receiving the james v and iw island memorial scholarship created by the ventura
1:43:28 college foundation board of directors
1:43:34 isabel will be receiving the denise baylor automotive and diesel mechanics scholarship created by denise baylor and
1:43:42 the ellen and jim dabowski scholarship created by ellen dembowski
1:43:47 [Applause]
1:43:52 next is miles for reno he'll be receiving the benjamin tanner memorial scholarship created by emma holland
1:44:04 destiny gonzalez will be receiving a natalie stanton scholarship created by the ventura college foundation board of
1:44:10 directors [Applause]
1:44:31 memorial scholarship created by maria fiumaroto also the ventura college foundation
1:44:37 achievement scholarship created by the ventura college foundation board of directors
1:44:52 memorial scholarship created by the ventura college foundation board of directors and the ventura college
1:44:57 foundation achievement scholarship created by the ventura college foundation board of directors
1:45:03 [Applause]
1:45:09 our next recipient is should be receiving the associated
1:45:16 students of ventura college scholarship credibility associated students and the joyce ogawa yoshioka memorial
1:45:23 scholarship created by yoshioka the ventura college foundation achievement scholarship created by the ventura
1:45:30 college foundation
1:45:35 joel monso will be receiving the osher foundation scholarship created by the foundation for california community
1:45:42 colleges
1:45:49 and next is luis garcia he'll be receiving the edmond andreas
1:45:54 memorial scholarship created by herb henning henning and the james v and iw i
1:45:59 love memorial scholarship created by the college foundation board of directors and the senator hope thomas art
1:46:06 scholarship created by rob thomas
1:46:14 will be receiving the joe hernandez memorial arts scholarship created by tedessa
1:46:20 and the judith lebanon two-dimensional art scholarship created by judith levenhall
1:46:25 [Applause]
1:46:38 okay
1:46:44 memorial scholarship created by the ventura college foundation board of directors the goldman metal working
1:46:50 scholarship created by family martinez clinic dr james todd
1:46:56 baby dpm scholarship created by linda k fisher
1:47:06 john shipley will be receiving i think he prefer to go by
1:47:13 is that right yes this is shipley we'll be receiving the bill and the lease hearing paramedic
1:47:19 scholarship created by elise kearney
1:47:28 jeffrey cronin will be receiving the gene scholarship created by the gene haas foundation
1:47:35 [Applause] sebastian gonzalez will be receiving the
1:47:43 gene scholarship created by the gene haas foundation
1:47:56 esther perez will be receiving the jacqueline and walter walker memorial scholarship founded by stephen walker
1:48:02 and the james v and iaw isla memorial scholarship founded by the ventura college foundation board of directors
1:48:10 [Applause]
1:48:16 all right we're going to take another break to hear another story from one of our remarkable recipients
1:48:23 and i'd like to ask a student speaker and a phoenix scholarship recipient
1:48:28 meredith mccallum to come up and share her story meredith
1:48:38 good evening thank you man king in the bc foundation for the invitation to be here
1:48:44 i'm excited it is quite an honor to tell you a
1:48:49 little bit about myself my journey here at ventura college and what it means to receive the bobcat
1:48:55 family scholarship and the ventura college foundation achievement scholarship
1:49:01 i grew up in orange county in a volatile broken home i became a mom
1:49:06 at 25 and 28 divorced by 30. i lack self-esteem i can never find the
1:49:13 courage to complete much of anything including high school sixteen years ago
1:49:20 i met my partner who's from ventura and i moved here shortly after
1:49:26 i dedicated myself to raising my daughters i worked nights
1:49:32 for years to be available for my children i wanted to be the perfect mom and the
1:49:37 perfect spouse i set aside my sleep and my health
1:49:43 in 2019 i was diagnosed with an ear disease that will render me deaf
1:49:49 with the support and services i receive i enrolled in ventura college in the spring of 2020.
1:49:56 three months later the dependent hit i decided to take advantage of
1:50:01 sheltering at home and advance my studies i took 16 units per semester
1:50:08 and all my semesters were online i worked closely with mario rivera my
1:50:14 educational assistant counselor and james vega assisted me at the campus tutoring center which helped me excel in
1:50:21 my writing i estimate that i have logged in for 200 plus hours at the tutoring center
1:50:28 i'm a political science major that has a passion for environmental protection
1:50:34 in the past two and a half years i've received four aaa degrees
1:50:39 one certification and grant writing for non-profit from san diego state university
1:50:45 and i've received four scholarships from the bc foundation
1:50:50 including the phoenix scholarship and the lyndon mcsherry ruth environmental studies scholarship in 2021
1:50:59 i applied and was accepted into uc santa cruz ucla uc santa barbara and uc
1:51:05 berkeley my ultimate educational dream of attending uc berkeley will be coming
1:51:12 true this fall go bears thank you thank you
1:51:20 because of the generosity of the bc foundation my scholarships allow me more
1:51:26 time to focus on studying community involvement and self-care
1:51:31 i will add a more extraordinary repertoire of studies making for a well-rounded education
1:51:37 and i can increase my opportunities including an internship in washington dc
1:51:43 and so much more for this i truly thank you
1:51:48 and i pledge to be a donor in the future thank you
1:52:01 thank you meredith and congratulations again so finally
1:52:07 you've heard from our phoenix scholarship recipient we're going to award our phoenix scholarships as well
1:52:13 as our largest scholarships of the year our phoenix recipients please stand in
1:52:20 line for your awarding
1:52:38 it was established in 1999 by the ventura college foundation board members who learned about the unique needs of
1:52:44 the ventura college re-entry students the ventura the phoenix scholarship is
1:52:50 designed to assist these students who have minimal or no resources at their disposal that their disposal for the
1:52:56 cost of education re-entry students are individuals who must learn new skills and return to
1:53:03 school to do so or who have chosen to return to school after a break in education
1:53:09 without further delay we're going to conclude our ceremony by awarding these inspiring students thank you dr hoffman
1:53:17 and russell for your assistance
1:53:25 so our first phoenix recipient come forward
1:53:45 all right this phoenix student is receiving the gene scholarship created by the gene foundation it is
1:53:53 [Applause]
1:54:03 [Music]
1:54:11 memorial scholarship created by sharon watts wooly the kenneth d helms memorial
1:54:16 choral scholarship created by elizabeth holmes excuse me elizabeth hounds
1:54:22 robert and regina lawson music composition scholarship created by robert lawson
1:54:32 laura marcias will be receiving the dr joyce mason
1:54:37 evans and david a evans phoenix scholarship created by joyce evans and the stem white cell phoenix scholarship
1:54:43 created by stan myself
1:54:51 our next recipient is joseph whalen he'll be receiving the ventura college foundation achievement scholarship
1:54:57 created by the ventila ventura college foundation board of directors and the ventura college foundation veterans
1:55:03 scholarship created by tyrone heritage foundation
1:55:11 brittany mason will be receiving the friends of osher phoenix scholarship created by the ventura college
1:55:17 foundation board of directors
1:55:26 nicholas holt will be receiving the james v and iw island memorial scholarship created by the ventura
1:55:32 college foundation board of directors and the ventura college foundation senior scholarship created by the
1:55:37 ventura college foundation board
1:55:43 jeffrey james luna will be receiving the ventura college foundation achievement scholarship created by the ventura
1:55:49 college foundation board of directors the ventura college foundation veterans scholarship created by the tyrone
1:55:55 heritage foundation and the woolly phoenix veterans scholarship created by john wooley
1:56:07 our next recipient is mattia who will be receiving the ventura college foundation achievement
1:56:13 scholarship created by the ventura college foundation board and the ventura college foundation phoenix scholarship
1:56:20 created by the ventura college foundation board of directors [Applause]
1:56:31 memorial scholarship created by john wooley the ideca scholarship created by ita and the ventura college foundation
1:56:39 veterans scholarship created by the tyrone heritage foundation
1:56:49 our next recipient is jessica macias she will be receiving the dr thomas b o'neal
1:56:55 nursing scholarship created by stacia o'neil and the michelin soccerof phoenix
1:57:01 scholarship created by micheline sacramento
1:57:10 denise will be receiving the eleanor tillquist phoenix scholarship created by eleanor
1:57:15 tillquist and george tillquist lucia tebby memorial scholarship phoenix
1:57:20 scholarship created by von meyer [Applause]
1:57:37 scholarship created by elise kearney the honorable colleen toy white memorial
1:57:43 annual scholarship created by arthur bliss and the nicholas joel haberland memorial
1:57:48 scholarship created by susan harland
1:57:56 mia and alanis will be receiving the dr joyce mason evans and david a evans
1:58:01 phoenix scholarship created by joyce evans and the taylor family scholarship created by richard taylor
1:58:13 a leader francis will be receiving the stand myself scholarship created by stan marcel and
1:58:19 the taylor family scholarship created by richard taylor
1:58:26 ingrid munoz will be receiving the bernice bielen memorial phoenix scholarship created by bob
1:58:34 and the james v and ida w islett memorial scholarship created by the ventura college foundation board of
1:58:40 directors and the ventura college foundation achievement scholarship created by the ventura college
1:58:45 foundation board of directors
1:58:51 [Applause]
1:59:00 king memorial nursing scholarship created by don king and the prison hospital action committee
1:59:06 scholarship created by the prison hospital action committee inc
1:59:17 will be receiving the heiser family phoenix scholarship created by linda seaman
1:59:24 [Applause]
1:59:32 alexa wallace will be receiving the dr morris judith levinhall art scholarship
1:59:37 created by judith and the stand wise
1:59:43 [Applause]
1:59:54 matthew sanchez will be receiving the california resources corporation veteran student scholarship created by the
1:59:59 california resources corporation the ventura college foundation achievement scholarship created by the ventura
2:00:05 college foundation board of directors and the ventura college foundation veterans scholarship created by the
2:00:11 tyrone heritage foundation [Applause]
2:00:24 george casares will be receiving the eleanor tillquist phoenix scholarship created by eleanor tillquist and george
2:00:30 stillquist [Applause]
2:00:39 robin white will be receiving the stan wassel phoenix scholarship created by
2:00:44 stan weissel and the ventura college holistic studies scholarship created by ray anne corner
2:00:51 [Applause]
2:00:57 christopher heightland will be receiving the kata family scholarship created by lynn
2:01:02 the ventura college foundation veterans scholarship created by tyrone heritage foundation
2:01:08 [Applause]
2:01:15 thank you russell so much and thank you dr hoffman and aubry for helping me i
2:01:20 appreciate that so much we're gonna call up our final row of scholarships
2:01:26 recipients and as they line up i'd like to tell you a little bit about what's happening this
2:01:32 evening and um we're going to have them all go
2:01:38 this way thank you michelle appeared the first group of students that we will
2:01:45 be i will be calling out of this group will be receiving scholarships ranging
2:01:51 from 4 100 to 4 300 from southern california edison so i
2:01:56 would like to invite andrew thomas to help hand out the certificate
2:02:01 [Applause]
2:02:19 estefan marique are you here come on forward and let us congratulate
2:02:26 estefan for his southern california edison scholarship
2:02:32 he's receiving to the southern california edison scholarship and the southern california edison stem scholarship
2:02:41 jonathan mchale are you here how about savannah orr
2:02:56 savannah orr will be receiving a southern california edison scholarship and the southern california edison stama
2:03:02 scholarship so fabian saldana are you here abraham
2:03:10 rangel come on forward [Applause]
2:03:22 abraham rangel will be receiving the gene haas foundation scholarship created by the gene haas foundation and the
2:03:27 southern california edison scholarship created by southern california edison
2:03:34 audrey tulittle are you here
2:03:46 audrey doolittle will be receiving the southern california edison scholarship and the southern california edison stem
2:03:52 scholarship sloan tribble come on forward
2:04:02 [Applause]
2:04:08 sloan triple will will be receiving the southern california edison scholarship and the southern california edison stem
2:04:14 scholarship
2:04:20 our next group of students will be receiving the paul and bessie carter
2:04:25 nursing scholarship each student will receive five thousand dollars
2:04:30 [Music] [Applause]
2:04:35 and katie coney come on forward [Applause]
2:04:47 so and katie coney kate known as katie will be receiving the paul and bessie carter nursing scholarship
2:04:54 from the estate of paul and bessie carter
2:04:59 brianna goodner come forward [Applause]
2:05:12 brianna goodner will be receiving the paul and bessie carter nursing scholarship created by the estate of bessie carter
2:05:22 kelty pasco come forward she's not here okay
2:05:28 our next group of students i would like to call up will be receiving the miriam and henry schwab memorial aquatic
2:05:35 scholarship and each scholarship is valued at 7 500
2:05:41 it is a transfer scholarship isabel tennyson come on forward
2:05:48 [Applause]
2:05:57 isabel tennyson will be receiving the bill miller memorial scholarship created by geoffrey miller as well as the miriam
2:06:03 and henry schwab memorial aquatic scholarship created by the late marian schwab
2:06:13 nicholas thompson come on forward [Applause]
2:06:26 nicholas thompson will be receiving the john tallman memorial scholarship created by steve talman and the miriam
2:06:32 and henry schwab memorial aquatic scholarship created by the late marian schwab
2:06:42 and finally our last group of students will be receiving the mary guthrie
2:06:48 teaching scholarship they have committed their lives to education to be our next
2:06:53 teachers for our next generations coming forward
2:07:01 so why don't you three come on up you don't have to wait over there come on forward
2:07:12 each of their scholarships awards are twelve thousand two hundred and sixty
2:07:18 one dollars
2:07:24 these are transfer scholarships and the donor intended for them to finish their bachelor's degree in teaching
2:07:30 so viva hernandez will be receiving the mary guthrie teaching scholarship created by the ventura college
2:07:36 foundation board of directors congratulations [Applause]
2:07:51 ileana will be receiving the mary guthrie teaching scholarship created by the ventura college foundation board of
2:07:57 directors [Applause]
2:08:10 our final award today is a as elizabeth clues and she will be receiving the mary
2:08:16 guthrie teaching scholarship created by the ventura college foundation board of directors congratulations
2:08:32 thank you very much for your help give a round of applause for andrew
2:08:37 thomas from southern california addison
2:08:44 wow this brings us near to the end of our formal part of our celebration today
2:08:50 i want to thank jerry and richard and ambra and dr hoffman for your help today
2:08:56 i want to thank all of you students will you stand and turn and face donors and your loved ones and thank them so much
2:09:03 for what they have done for us today
2:09:22 thank you so much it does take a village it takes all of us working together to inspire the future through these amazing
2:09:29 students i want to thank all of our sponsors today hd main events southern california
2:09:36 edison merrill kamal advisors citizens business banks cyril creative group bank of the sierra lnt catering you know him
2:09:44 as peter ching ohana pet hospitals and trinity wheeler photography
2:09:50 the ventura college foundation board and board amerity members behind me the vc
2:09:55 administration the faculty the staff in the rafters and down here and thank you for all of your tremendous
2:10:02 support i want to thank my amazing foundation staff and all of our volunteers here today please give all of
2:10:09 these people behind the scenes a round of applause
2:10:22 all of you will be receiving a survey because we want to keep doing better and better things up in an email and so i'd really
2:10:29 appreciate your feedback we all would the photos that have been taken will be posted on the foundation's facebook page
2:10:36 in a few weeks so that you can share these great memories with loved ones and i would like to also tell you that
2:10:42 you have instructions in yours behind your certificates about how you will receive
2:10:47 your uh awards we will also be sending you your specific certificates in the mail as
2:10:54 well so you're going to receive a formal certificate with the names of your scholarships and your name on it for you
2:10:59 to frame so look forward to that coming in your mail we've got some movement that's about to
2:11:05 happen so i have instructions to give you
2:11:10 if you have received students if you have received a jean haws
2:11:17 or southern california edison scholarship
2:11:23 i'd like you to head to the small gym for a giant photo
2:11:28 you bit and then i'll tell you when to get up to do that so has everybody got that those of you who have gene haas and
2:11:34 southern california edison scholarships do you know who you are when i tell you to go you're gonna head out the back doors
2:11:41 there over to the small gym if you do not know where the small gym is i guarantee you there will be students
2:11:48 around you that do and it's just a short walk out these back doors and then you will
2:11:53 come back in for the reception all right when i tell you
2:12:00 i want i'm going to ask all the students to look at your last name notice the letter that your last name starts with
2:12:07 and when i tell you i'm gonna ask you to move to
2:12:12 under one of these signs here you can see the alphabet
2:12:18 that starts that that includes the first letter of your last name and why because we think it's very important
2:12:26 and we know how great it feels for your donors to meet you so now i have instructions for the
2:12:34 donors remember the cards that were in your mail your name badges
2:12:39 this is the time to pull those out because those cards are going to tell you remind you now of who the student
2:12:46 recipient was for your scholarship so when i tell you i'm going to ask those donors to move as well
2:12:54 so i'm going to have all the students move gene haas and southern california edison are going to leave the room for a second and then come back and stand
2:13:01 under their alphabet and then the rest of the students recipients will go
2:13:07 to the sign that corresponds with the first letter of the last name on your name badge
2:13:13 and the donors will move at that same time the rest of us are gonna be still
2:13:20 because and it's gonna be hard it's gonna be super hard to be still but i know you can do it because we want
2:13:27 our donors to have an opportunity to meet our students and then once we get settled
2:13:32 down here once our our donors have left the upper
2:13:37 deck and you're gonna you'll be going down the stairs to down here there are stairs that kind
2:13:44 of come down and meet your students then we'll all get to move and the rest of us will and we'll have a
2:13:49 great time at a short reception well we have which we have we have cookies and refreshments and some non-alcoholic
2:13:57 beverages and then i'm lastly
2:14:06 i just want to say to all of you especially the students
2:14:14 we get up every morning because you make a difference in our lives all of us who give money i'm a donor myself
2:14:23 all of the board of directors of this foundation all of the staff the faculty
2:14:29 the administration we get up because you inspire us
2:14:34 you work so hard and if we can stand next to you and remove a barrier in front of you to
2:14:41 reward your incredibly hard work and the barriers that you face and you just do it anyway
2:14:47 in spite of all of them it gives us joy it makes for the world worth living in
2:14:55 you are the future for all of us and because you sit here and you work as hard as you do
2:15:02 we have hope for the future thank you for giving us that gift
2:15:15 so you incredible people it's time to celebrate at least for one night i know many of you have finals next week
2:15:22 a lot of you are going to graduate and walk next week we're going to see you again there we celebrate you
2:15:29 and we ask you to at least celebrate for a few minutes this evening because you have earned it all right so it's time
2:15:37 are you ready those people all of our students and our donors
2:15:42 it's time to move go
2:15:53 my gosh you guys are such good students even the donors up there well done
2:16:07 our donors are coming downstairs some of our donors are leaving behind me to go find you
2:16:13 i thank you for being bold and i'm saying hello to somebody that you haven't met before
2:16:21 i congratulate our students i congratulate our donors i congratulate
2:16:27 our families
2:16:35 have a great night thank you for being here
2:16:43 and i thank you all all right you are free you have been released up
2:16:51 there in the rafters come on down and join us let's celebrate
2:17:13 [Music]
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2:17:42 [Music]
2:17:58 [Music]
2:18:20 everyone i'd like you to remember that we do have refreshments in the uh the corner closest to the the side of the
2:18:27 building where you entered so please feel free wait it's been warm hydrate hydrate it's important and have
2:18:34 something to eat as well enjoy [Music]
2:18:58 [Applause] [Music] hey
2:19:04 [Music]
2:19:12 another one [Music]